Wednesday, January 15, 2025
Tuesday, January 7, 2025
The Most Important Part of Your Speech...
@richhopkins The most important forgotten aspect of your presentations.
♬ original sound - Rich Hopkins
Saturday, January 4, 2025
Thursday, January 2, 2025
Are you willing to Pay The Price?
Every year people I know post their 'word of the year' - words like Thrive or Blessed or Gratitude or Power or Action or...well you get the idea.
I've never really done it with any seriousness, but for 2025, I'm going to give it a go - and if you watch my video shorts, you've heard what it is already.
"Pay".
As in "Pay the Price". Most goals worth achieving require sacrifice of some type. Time, Money, Blood, Sweat, Tears...but life is SO comfortable, it can be easy to simply pay for the pizza, for Netflix, and just lay back. If that's YOUR goal - cool - more power to you. For me, I've got more I want to achieve financially, physically, spiritually, and with my family.
But I'm going to have to Pay the Price. What that price is - well, when I have that figured out, I'll let you know. But I'm pretty sure it involves watching fewer than the 105 movies and 50 seasons of tv shows I watched in 2024, eating very differently, moving a lot more, and meeting a lot more people.
What price are you ready to pay?
Tuesday, December 31, 2024
2024 Reading List
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| What ChatGPT thinks I look like when I read... |
My goal in 2023 was to read FEWER books than the 80 I read in 2022, with a greater diversity than my typical steady diet of self-help, marketing, and speaking books I've spent the majority of the last 25 years reading. I succeeded, as you can read here: https://speakanddeliver.blogspot.com/2024/01/books-read-in-2023.html.
In 2024, I was again less concerned with volume, but still wanting to increase diversity. The list is below - just 37 - all on Kindle. As for diversity, you can be the judge.
Kindle
101 Podcast Episode Templates - David Hooper - 242
Big Podcast - David Hooper - 436
Sell From the Stage - Sam Crowley - 70
Star Trek: Brave & the Bold: Book One - Keith DeCandido - 288
Star Trek: Brave & the Bold: Book Two - Keith DeCandido - 278
Humanities Cry for Change - Kate Heartsong - 278
Star Trek: The Captain's Daughter - Peter David - 303
Art Matters - Neil Gaiman - 112
Attract & Keep Customers for Life - Terry Begue - 174
Pure Vulnerability - Kevin Snyder - 63
Think Differently - Kevin Snyder - 172
Paid to Speak - Kevin Snyder - 224
Star Trek: Cold Equations Book I: The Persistence of Memory - David Mack - 390
Star Trek: Cold Equations Book II: Silent Weapons - David Mack - 342
Star Trek: Cold Equations Book III: The Body Electric - David Mack - 342
Star Trek: Coda Book I: Moments Asunder - Dayton Ward - 351
Star Trek: Coda Book II: The Ashes of Tomorrow - James Swallow - 356
Star Trek: Coda Book III: Oblivions Gate - David Mack - 432
Stop Procrastinating Tomorrow - Mary C. Kelly - 97
Success Unleashed: Mastering Your Life's Purpose - JP Bachmann - 141
Adventures of a Telegraph Boy - Horatio Alger - 242
Digging For Gold - Horatio Alger - 230
Make 'em Laugh and Take Their Money - Dan Kennedy - 236
The Science of Motivation - Brian Tracy - 248
24 - 6047 pages
Clearly, I got onto a bit of a Star Trek Kick, and I have about 10 more sitting in my Kindle right now. Easy reads, and usually quite fun. My college professor introduced me to Ragged Dick from Horatio Alger 37 years ago, and I found a compilation of all of his writing for .99 cents on Kindle, so I'm treating myself to those as well - fictional stories that are somewhat self-help oriented, and always uplifting.
Audible
My Name is Barbra - Barbra Streisand - 48:17
13 158:48 hours
Willpower - Roy F. Baumeister & John Tierney - 9:17
A Disability History of the United States - Kim E. Neilsen - 7:35
Psycho-Cybernetics - Maxwell Maltz - 12:16
Peak Mind - Amishi P. Jha - 8:38
Change - Damon Centola - 9:50
The Motivation Master Coach - Earl Nightingale, Jim Rohn, etc - 11:57
The Obesity Code - Dr. Jason Fung - 10:09
$100M Leads - Alex Hormozi - 6:00
Selling to the Affluent - Matt Oxley - 6:19
Day Trading Attention - Gary Vaynerchuck - 8:24
Thinking Big - Ziglar, Brown, Iverson and more - 13:06
Champion Minded - Alistair McCaw - 7:00
My Name is Barbra was easily my favorite listen, even as long as it was - she narrated it herself, and the recording included bits of songs here and there. Really in-depth - and made me want to watch more of her movies. Which I really haven't done this year, outside of Funny Girl, which I had never seen.
I also read 11 comic omnibus compilations on Kindle - Silver Age Green Lantern I-IV, Bronze Age Swamp Thing I-VI, Thor Visionaries Vol III, and X-Men, the Phoenix Saga.
I didn't read an entire real, tangible book, however. I'm about 30 percent through Einstein by Walter Isaacson, though. It's a tough read, since I really know nothing about physics, even as he tries to dumb it down for the reader.
There were plenty of tangible books on my reading list that kept getting bumped, which I want to get to in 2025 - 27 of them, in fact, though many are quite long, including a Benjamin Franklin biography. We'll see how I do.
Any recommendation from y'all?
There were plenty of tangible books on my reading list that kept getting bumped, which I want to get to in 2025 - 27 of them, in fact, though many are quite long, including a Benjamin Franklin biography. We'll see how I do.
Any recommendation from y'all?
Monday, December 30, 2024
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Are you willing to do the work?
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I've worked with a bunch of speakers in 2024, helping them build their keynote, enhance their brands, and find paid stages.
Out of that bunch, one particular client stands out.
We've worked together the last 18 months. We built his keynote. We worked on outreach. He had over 350 email outreaches, and ended up with a number of Chamber opportunities, all paid. They wanted training talks on everything from delegation to social media to resiliency – together we built two-hour talks complete with heavy audience involvement and professional slide decks.
We found the right humor moments, and jettisoned some that might have gotten him in hot water. We found story after story from his personal and professional life to relate to his audiences. He sold books and made a good sum over and above the speaking fees. Ultimately, his chamber audience linked him to big time stages, and big time speaking fees.
His quote to me last week? "Rich – you 10x'd my speaking business" – over 30K in booked presentations – many with repeat customers. He did the work. He listened, he argued, he stood his ground, he compromised, he KEPT listening. And he kept doing the work. Imagine if you were this client? How far do you want to go in 2025?
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